Reframing education as a public and common good: enhancing democratic governance

Democratic public good provision

This paper analyzes an overlapping generation model of public good provision under repeated voting. The public good is financed through age-dependent taxation that distorts human capital investment. Taxes redistribute income both across different skill groups and across generations. We contrast the political equilibria with the Ramsey allocation, and analyze the sources of inefficiency. The pol...

European Public Participation as Risk Governance: Enhancing Democratic Accountability for Agbiotech Policy?

European decision-making on techno-scientific issues has encountered public suspicion and legitimacy problems. These have resulted from government policies promoting specific technologies as if they were objective imperatives. The consequent difficulties have been diagnosed according to various ‘deficit’ models, which in turn inform efforts at governing the societal conflict. Anticipating or re...

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: Governments Serving Citizens

Good Governance and Urban Management

The pattern of governance is a new topic which has found its traces in urban management, and has the features of continuance, decision making, justice, efficiency, effectiveness, clarity, accountability, partnership, and immunity, all of which are interdependent and empowering. According to this pattern, decisions about civil affairs are taken with the cooperation of government, private sectors...

Good Governance and Public Value Management in the Face of COVID-19

Nowadays, most countries of the world are dealing with covid-19, which has resulted in many economic, political, social, and health challenges. However, people in society need to interact with each other due to economic and social reasons, which make it harder to control the disease. Infectious diseases and quarantine cause widespread devastation in the lives of people in the community. Therefo...